South Korea’s Harvard-Taught Political Boss Rips China ‘Cruelty’
- Seoul needs to fight “enemies of democracy,” Lee Jun-seok says
- The opposition made him their youngest political leader
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The 36-year-old leader of South Korea’s biggest opposition party said his fellow millennials will push back against Chinese “cruelty” in places like Hong Kong, indicating a tougher line with Beijing if his political group regains power.
Harvard-educated Lee Jun-seok, the newly installed leader of the People Power Party, said in an interview with Bloomberg that generational change is taking place and he aims to harness it at home to return his conservative group to the presidency, and abroad to revisit Seoul’s relations with the international community.